Where to save data w/ XPE kiosks???

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Marcelo

Hi all!

I'm using a XPE image in a gaming kiosk/machine. I need to save every user
action (like buttons pressed, game status, credits earned, etc...) every
time they occur. Of course, I don't want to use hard disks, but every Disk
on Chip, Disk on Modules, Compact Flash, etc....have a small limit of writes
for me. I probably can make thousands of writes in a day.
Do you have any ideas on what storage device should I use ?

thx,
Marcelo
 
Marcelo said:
Hi all!

I'm using a XPE image in a gaming kiosk/machine. I need to save every user
action (like buttons pressed, game status, credits earned, etc...) every
time they occur. Of course, I don't want to use hard disks, but every Disk
on Chip, Disk on Modules, Compact Flash, etc....have a small limit of writes
for me. I probably can make thousands of writes in a day.
Do you have any ideas on what storage device should I use ?
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CMOS, or something like battery powered memories. There are hybrid
components that have integrated real time calendar, few KB of RAM and
battery in them. Calendar can work for years without external power, and RAM
can retain state. But this would be hard to connect to PC.

You can use flash, with algorithm modification. Consider using instead of
same position on flash, incremental position (kind of cyclic write). So if
you use thousand times more memory you will have thousand time less writes
to same flash block. Since this info you use if smaller that 512 bytes. In
50MB you could do more that 100000+ writes before you write again to the
same block. This would give you life time that is longer than device itself.
And as a bonus you could see from some external remote program log of last
100000+ device states.

So flash is acceptable solution.


Regards,
Slobodan
 
Marcelo said:
Hi all!

I'm using a XPE image in a gaming kiosk/machine. I need to save every user
action (like buttons pressed, game status, credits earned, etc...) every
time they occur. Of course, I don't want to use hard disks, but every Disk
on Chip, Disk on Modules, Compact Flash, etc....have a small limit of writes
for me. I probably can make thousands of writes in a day.
Do you have any ideas on what storage device should I use ?
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Use Enhanced Write Filter. It saves everything until you reboot.
 
Heidi,
Use Enhanced Write Filter. It saves everything until you reboot.
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What happens to income and statistics when we reboot device?
Could you please elaborate little more on this.


Slobodan
 
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